Department of Health and Social Care

Test and Trace Support Payment

Jon Trickett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason people on low incomes and eligible for self-isolation payments are unable to access financial support unless they are asked to isolate by NHS Test and Trace.

Helen Whately: The Test and Trace Support Payment is available to people who are required to self-isolate, are on a low income and will lose income because they are unable to work from home. In addition to those told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace, there are now arrangements in place to allow people told to self-isolate on the advice of local public health officials to make a claim for a Test and Trace Support Payment.